NEWSLETTER
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AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION - CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC & CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION

Volume 27 Number 5                                                                                       October/November 1985


OXFORD A SMASHING SUCCESS

Judged by almost any criterion -attendance, personal interaction, intellectual stimulation, spiritual warmththe conference on "Christian Faith and Science in Society" held in Oxford on 26-29 July was a huge success. The international conference in "The City of Dreaming Spires" served as the 1985 Annual Meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation-our 40th since ASA's founding in 1941. It made a great 40th anniversary celebration.

The conference was also ASA's second joint meeting with the Research Scientists' Christian Fellowship (RSCF) of Great Britain, the first having been a smaller, more select conference in Oxford twenty years before, in 1965. The 1985 conference was three years in the planning stages, with ASA executive director Robert Herrmann playing the leading role on the U.S. side of the Atlantic and RSCF secretary Oliver Barclay on the other side.

St. Catherine's, one of the most modern colleges of Oxford University, proved to be an almost ideal setting. It was completely taken over by the ASA/RSCF conferees and many family members from North America. One group of 40 ASAers took a two-week bus tour together on the European continent before the conference, another immediately afterwards.

The Newsletter Editor and his Faithful Assistant went to England two weeks beforehand, attended the conference, took that second bus trip, then stayed in Paris for a week (including our 234th wedding monthiversary) before returning to Berkeley on August 20. We arrived jetlagged and basically "bussed out." We babbled in several languages, no longer able to tell francs from guilders, marks, shillings, or tokens for the lavarie automatique. After digging through six weeks of mail we're still not in the best shape to give you a play-by-play account of such a major conference by our September 1 deadline.

Next time. Meanwhile, we've fished out most of the ASA news items from those three apple-boxes overflowing with mail.

COMING IN FUTURE ISSUES ...

Echoes from an exciting international conference. The gist of major addresses by plenary speakers Walter Thorson and Donald MacKay. New ideas from contributed papers. New directions from the ASA Executive Council meeting and ASA Annual Business Meeting. A look at ASA and RSCF-our similarities, differences, and possibilities for future collaboration. Maybe even photographs of the Oxford conference (if we can figure out how to reproduce them).

Plus: European travel tips. Reflections from the windows of a bus-on science, religion, art, history, museums, cathedrals, palaces, public transportation, fellow-travelers, and what-have-you. Input from Ipswich, in the form of HERRMAN N-EUTICS. A progress report from the ASA Committee on Integrity in Science Education, maybe even an excerpt from the latest draft of the Committee's Call for Integrity in Science Education, for your feedback.

Also: More PERSONALS (if you keep sending those postcards). More LETTERS THAT COUNT (if you keep writing lem). And (if we have room) the ongoing WELCOME TO THE 20TH CENTURY, packed with the editor's adventures and misadventures in word processing.

COMING IN FUTURE YEARS. .

An ASA Annual Meeting that everybody can afford! For starters, the 1986 ANNUAL MEETING at HOUGHTON COLLEGE in HOUGHTON, NEW YORK, AUGUST 8-10. Planning is already underway. Program chair Charles Hummel promises a thought-provoking meeting, with psychologist David G. Myers, author of The Human Puzzle: Psychological Research and Christian Belief (Harper/ CAPS, 1978) as keynote speaker, on a theme possibly related to "The Meaning of Human Fallenness."

Contribute a paper on any science/faith issue and get valuable feedback from Christians knowledgeable in your field and other fields of science. Propose an idea to bat around and volunteer to lead a discussion group. Meet with members of the Commission you care most about, or form your own task force to work together on some project the ASA needs to be doing. Talk to Council members, ASA's executive director, editors, or office manager about what's happening-and what ought to be happening-in ASA. We have a calling, a ministry, a job to do together.

Put 8-10 AUGUST1986 on your calendar now. It's true that Houghton College dorms and Houghton motels can't compare with the Htoel Concorde St. Lazarre in Paris for class-but they won't cost you as much, either! And local arrangements chair Don Munro of Houghton guarantees that the campus will not be crowded with busloads of tourists coming to see the "college set on a hill" or other fabulous sights.

If New York state seems almost as far removed from you as the place where the Angles used to ford their oxen, remember that ASA meetings move across North America and back on a regular schedule. Could you make it to the east in 1986, midwest in 1987, far west in 1988, or back to the midwest in 1989? (At the Oxford conference, ASAers were proposing a 1990 meeting in the Boston area to which our RSCF friends would be invitedfor another Brit ish-American "tea party.")

 OH, WE OF LITTLE FAITH

The Weary Old Editor (WOE is me!-Ed.) admits that he is inordinately suspicious of any project that costs money. And the more it costs, the greater his skepticism. Let's face it, the Oxford conference was more expensive than our usual ASA Annual Meetings, even with the best possible deals on overseas flights. it was expensive even for our British colleagues, who're used to attending one day regional or national RSCF meetings without having to pay for lodging.

Would anybody show up? Had some visionary (say, Bob Herrmann or Oliver Barclay) mistaken for a true vision what was really just a wild idea? We wondered. But when so many outstanding people from both sides of the Atlantic- began- showing up- at-the -registration desk we stopped worrying. When the auditorium filled up for the first plenary session, excitement took over and we knew we had a winner. And when every corner of the even larger dining hall at St. Catherine's resounded with animated conversations, we began to get the vision ourselves.

Years ago a wise scientist told us that one goes to regional and national scientific meetings to hear the papers, but to international meetings to meet the people. At Oxford we were soon seeing "effective collisions" taking place that could not have been catalyzed except at such an international meeting. As we expected, most of the 260 or so people at Oxford were from North America or Great Britain, but this was a truly international conference, drawing Christians in scientific work from all over the world.

Continental Europe was well represented, with registrants from France, West Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, and Greece coming easily to mind. But chemists from Brazil and Hong Kong were also there, a philosopher of science and a statistician from South Africa, a couple from Botswana (he a chemistry lecturer, she a medical technician), a zoologist from Kenya, a physicist from Japan, and a science educator from Nepal who has become a Christian while studying in England. We didn't meet everybody, of course, including a number of New Zealanders (who probably blended in with the Old Englanders).

Some "instant friendships" will take time to mellow. But some seemed to pay off immediately. At one point we were in a conversation with Harvard astronomer Owen Gingerich, putative host of the proposed ASA television series, and Colin Russell, historian of science at England's Open University. All of a sudden it dawned on the two Americans that one part of Colin's job is to produce educational television shows. "Oh, sure," he said, "I've done a dozen or so that have come off very well." The conversation quickly shifted to the nitty-gritty of production budgets, location shots, lighting, and so on.

Another immediately helpful contact was with Michael Poole, lecturer in science education at King's College, London. Michael was excited to learn of ASA's Committee for Integrity in Science Education and its first project designed to help science teachers cope with the "scientific creationism" controversy. He has written a very practical booklet along the same lines, published in 1984 by Britain's Association of Christian Teachers, entitled Science and Religion in the Classroom. We brought home a copy of Michael's booklet as a reference for ASA's committee to draw on.

So we were excited but we were also contrite. We sought out Bob Herrmann and confessed that we had been skeptical. "Bob," we said, "we are a person of miserly thoughts, of little faith, and of low income. We weren't sure that it made any sense for a low-budget outfit like ASA to come all the way to England to hold a meeting." Bob was very gracious, but we admitted how wrong we had been, and said we were prepared to "eat crow."

Come to think of it, we may have , in Paris-under some fancy name on the menu such as "Vol noir au vent du chef," or "Suprbmes de comeille aux champignons."

HITTING TWO BIRDS WITH ONE TICKET

What we hadn't realized was how many ASA and CSCA people would have a legitimate reason to be in Europe this summer-or could invent one. In London before the meeting we ran into political scientist Stan Moore and wife Nancy, who had already spent three months there with students in Pepperdine University's overseas study program. On a London bus we almost tripped over physiologist Kurt Weiss and wife Mary, a real du6ji§ vu experience: we had first met Kurt and discovered him to be a Christian in 1956 on a bus from the Brussels airport to the 20th International Physiological Congress!

Many ASAers were of course simply taking "the trip of a lifetime" but others had families to visit in Europe or business to attend to, or both. For example, retired geologist Don Boardman and wife Betty turned their Oxford trip into a reunion with their children's families from three different countries: son Don, Jr., now living in Saudi Arabia; daughter Ann Hein, a science teacher in Illinois; and daughter Barbara from Ottawa, Canada (married to geologist Richard Herd, who not only attended the conference but arranged to meet with his European research collaborators).

During the conference, the fifteen members of the Boardman clan took over an entire bed-and-breakfast inn in the city of Oxford. Ann and Bob Hein brought their young children Robin and Billy along on the bus trip, so the senior Boardmans were able to show two of their grandchildren some of the sights they had seen with their own children years ago when they crossed Europe on the way to set up a geology department at the University of Peshawar in Pakistan.

Betty Zipf of Biological Abstracts was on the telephone a lot of the time, talking to other members of an inter. national committee on which she serves; after the postconference bus tour she was planning to visit relatives in Germany before heading for an international conference on scientific documentation - in Africa. Chemist Ann Hunt was scheduled to give a seminar at Eli Lilly's research facility in Surrey, England, before attending the 4th Annual Meeting of the Society for Magnetic Resonance in medicine in London. Ohio State biochemist David Ives and wife Jean were trying to decide where to vacation for a week before Dave attended the International Biochemial Congress in Amsterdam. U. of Minnesota geneticist Elving Anderson and wife Carol were headed for Scandinavia, not so much to visit relatives as for Elving to track down a family he had heard about which may enable him to pick up some more genetic markers in his study of schizophrenia.

MORRISON TO ADDRESS CSCA

The 1985 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation will be held in Toronto on Saturday, October 26, with time and location to be announced. Principal speaker will be W. Douglas Morrison, professor of animal and poultry science at the University of Guelph, Ontario, and executive director of the CSCA. His talk will be entitled "Animal Welfare from a Christian Perspective."

Professor Morrison recently gave the 1985 Klinck Lecture for the Agricultural Institute of Canada. In his CSCA lecture he will respond to the new attention being given to the use of animals by human beings, both for research and for food production, and discuss the issues from a biblical Christian viewpoint. What does the Bible say or imply about the proper relationship of animals and humans? Doug has a bachelor's degree from the U. of Toronto and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the U. of Illinois. Before joining the faculty at Guelph he was director of nutrition research for Toronto Elevators Ltd.

IFACS TO HOLD SEMINAR ON PERSONHOOD

A seminar on "Biblical Models of the Person in Academic and Applied Psychology" will be held 6-11 July 1986, at St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto. The seminar is sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Christian Studies (IFACS) in connection with publication of the latest volume in the IFACS "Studies in a Christian World View" series: The Person in Psychology: A Contemporary Christian Appraisal (Eerdmans/IVP, 1985), by Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen.


In addition to Van Leeuwen (psychology and interdisciplinary studies, Calvin College), seminar leaders will include C. Stephen Evans (philosophy, St. Olaf's College); James Martin (psychology, Penn. State U.); and Glenn Weaver (psychology and theology, Calvin College). "Central to the seminar's alms will be a discussion on whether or not a single, biblical model of personhood can be developed which can transcend psychology's current division into academic and applied fields (the former working largely from mechanistic and the latter from humanistic assumptions about personhood), and which can address the indifference of the discipline as a whole to religious views of the person."

Participants will be selected from applicants who have received a Ph.D. in psychology within the past three years, or who are advanced graduate students in psychology (at the dissertation proposal stage or beyond); applicants from cognate fields (e.g., theology or philosophy of social science) will also be considered. IFACS will pay travel expenses to and from Toronto plus room and board for the week-long seminar, for successful applicants. The seminar is limited to fifteen participants, who will be sent a short reading list and will be expected to participate actively in discussion of papers presented and to give a semi-formal presentation of their own work in progress related to the seminar topic.

The deadline for receipt of all application materials is 15 March 1986, with acceptances to be mailed by April 1. Each applicant should submit a letter describing his or her background and interest in the topic, plus an updated curriculum vitae and two academic letters of reference (to be sent independently) to Prof. Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, 148 Hiemenga Hall, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI 49506.

(Mary asks ASA/CSCA members to encourage mature graduate students or young colleagues eligible for this theoretical ly-oriented seminar to apply. We hadn't heard of this latest twist to IFACS's support of Christian scholarly publication. Congratulations to IFACS-and to the ASA members on its board-for thinking of what sounds like a strategic way to produce a "cascade effect" on future Christian scholarship-Ed.)

BULLETIN BOARD

1. A symposium on "Implications of Scientific Cosmology for a Theology of Nature" will be held at 9-11:30 a.m. on Saturday, November 23, at the Anaheim Hilton Hotel in Anaheim, California. The symposium, held in conjunction with the 1985 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, is cosponsored by the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS), publishers of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science (U. of Chicago Press, 5750 Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637). Speakers will be Philip Hefner of the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago; Nancey Murphy of Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley; and Robert J. Russell, director of CTNS. Commentators will be Karl Peters, professor of philosophy and religion at Rollins College, and Lawrence S. Lerner, professor of physics and astronomy at Cal State Long Beach.

2. A computer bulletin board system (BBS) is operated as a ministry by Larry Riedinger and wife Grace from their home in Louisville, Kentucky. Computerists with a modem can call 502-361-4774 anytime Monday through Thursday to access discussion forums oriented around Christianity, philosophy, social justice, and science. Larry is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the U. of Louisville with an M.R.E. degree from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. His work centers around the female offender in the justice system, and Marxist social thought. The BBS is free (except for your phone bill, of course). System operator (a.k.a. "sysop") Larry says to add "-ASA" to your name when you sign in so it will stand out in the new caller file and receive faster validation.

3. The current issue of Origins (Semiannual, $4 per year. Geoscience Research Institute, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92350) includes a brief history of the Louisiana Balanced Treatment Act, under "News and Comments." Katherine Ching's account was written before this summer's ruling by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. That court struck down the statute on grounds that it violated the First Amendment's ban agains laws "favoring any particular religious belief or doctrine." The current issue of Creation/Evolution (Four issues, $9. American Humanist Association, P. 0. Box 146, Amherst Branch, Buffalo, NY 14226-0146) is devoted entirely to "The Paluxy River Footprint Mystery-Solved." It contains contributions by anthropologists J. R. Cole and L. R. Godfrey, geologist S. D. Schafersman, and science educator R. J. Hastings, and an extensive bibliography.


LETTERS THAT COUNT, CONT.

Animal Kingdom is the popular bimonthly magazine of The Zoological Society. It its May/Jun 1985 issue, author John McLoughlin wound up a long series on evolution with an article entitled "Contemporary Creationism: Science and Bible Science." In the Jul/Aug issue, eight letters to the editor commented on the McLoughlin article, six of them expressing disappointment or offense at what they took to be an attack on religion. The two more informative letters were written by ASA members Wayne Frair and Richard H. Bube.

Wayne suggested that the author's information on the Arkansas trial over Act 590 seemed limited and recommended Norman Geisler's book, The Creator in the Courtroom (Mott Media, Milford, MI 1982), and the writings of the Creation Research Society, as important sources of information. Dick Bube's letter is worth quoting in its entirety, not only for its pithy comments on the controversy but also as an example of how the word about ASA can be spread:

"Some readers may be misled to believe that there is a necessary connection between the advocacy of so-called scientific creationism and acceptance of the fundamental doctrines of historic biblical Christianity.

"It is important to realize that most knowledgeable practicing evangelical Christian scientists hold to the virgin birth of Christ, Christ's vicarious atonement on the cross and his resurrection from the dead, Christ's second coming, and the authority and reliability of the Bible, while having a rather different complementary approach to scientific and theological descriptions of origins from that held by advocates of 'scientific creationism.'

"No more tangible evidence can be offered than to call attention to the American Scientific Affiliation (P. 0. Box J, Ipswich, MA 01938), an organization of Christian men and women of science, which holds fully to the support of authentic science and authentic biblical inquiry. The ASA recognizes that both science and theology result from human interpretation and that, therefore, in uncertain areas dogmatism is unjustified on both sides.

"Inquiries from any of your readers troubled by these issues will be welcomed by either the ASA office at the address above or by the undersigned."

Responding in the same Letters column, the author of the article said he had attacked neither religion nor those who believe in creationism, "but only the movement to have the sectarian biblical version of the universe's origin injected into science classrooms." In response to Wayne Frair's argument that Arkansas Act 590 had prohibited relgious instruction in public schools, McLoughlin cited Judge Overton's decision in the case; McLoughlin concluded that Act 590 prohibited religious instruction "only by defining creationism as a science and not as a part of religion."

McLoughlin said he found Dick Bube's letter "refreshing" because it seemed to_offer a carefully reasoned  Christian path in the best tradition of that ancient religion." Animal Kingdom's editor-in-chief, Eugene J. Walter, Jr., added a note expressing regret over any offense that might have been caused, but offering "no apology for publishing scientific facts about evolution or Mr. McLoughlin's presentation of same."

At least one reader struck by the cogency of Dick Bube's letter has written to Dick, identifying himself as "a Christian and putative scientist" (a cardiac surgeon) who "has struggled with these issues." He said he would welcome correspondence with Dick or with ASA.

And so the dialogue continues.

BOOKENDS & NODS

The 1985-86 Directory of Members of the American Scientific Affiliation rates not only a nod but a vote of thanks to the Ipswich office from the whole membership. This edition looks better than the 1983 volume. What really counts, though, is that its information is arranged in a readily usable format. The geographical listing is now subsidiary to the general alphabetical list. Each member should have received a copy; extra copies (for personal use only) are available from the national office at $7.50 each.

Already the new Directory has inspired some demographic research by missions consultant George Jennings of Le Mars, Iowa. George counted the ASA members in each state and divided by that state's population. He concludes that ASA members have the greatest potential for interaction with their state's total population in Oregon, Alaska, and Massachusetts (in that order), if the ratio is the sole consideration. At the other extreme, the greatest needs for ASA "missionary enterprise" are clearly in Vermont and Wyoming-where we have no members at all.

 A review copy we picked up at the book table at Oxford looks good, although we haven't had time to read it carefully yet. It's part of a series called "When Christians Disagree." Editor of the whole series is ASA Honorary Fellow Oliver Barclay, a Ph.D. in zoology and for many years general secretary of the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship of Great Britain. Derek Burke, formerly professor of biological sciences at Warwick University, is now scientific director and vice-president of Allelix, Inc., of Ontario, Canada.

Christians familiar with American books attacking or defending evolution will hardly find new arguments here but may appreciate the way the arguments are framed. All the contributors "seek to be ruled by Scripture." The area of common ground was defined in eleven "theses" which conclude by stating the nub of the debate: "This debate is about whether such large-scale changes have taken place over a period greater than 6,000 years, and whether Genesis 1 excludes or allows that possiblility."

Chapters were solicited from pairs of contributors in related disciplines but with opposing views. Anti-evolutionist E. H. Andrews (materials science, Queen Mary College, London) was paired with A. G. Fraser (geology, Hull, England); Duane Gish (biochemistry, Institute for Creation Research, El Cajon, California) with Gareth Jones (anatomy, Otago, New Zealand); and Verna Wright (rheumatology, Leeds, England) with R. J. Berry (genetics, University College, London). When Andrews wanted to contribute a second chapter on philosphical aspects of the debate, it was paired with Gareth Jones's chapter, and Burke stepped in with "Why Some Christians Believe in Evolution" to pair with Gish's "A Consistent Biblical and Scientific View of Origins." All contributors also provide a brief response to the chapter paired against their own.

Oliver Barclay's ten-page "Summary and Conclusions" at the end cuts through a lot of quibbles and contains some memorable lines. He observes that the proponents of theistic evolution "do not believe that evolution leads to evolutionism (any more than relativity leads to relativism).".And he concludes, "it does appear that the crux of the whole matter is in the question of how Genesis 1 should be understood. If it were not for strongly-held views about this, it is doubtful whether the whole debate would be particularly important."


POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE

Wheaton College in Illinois seeks applicants with a Ph.D. for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in geology for summer or fall 1986. Major teaching areas: sedimentology, field geology, and structural geology or paleontology; other areas (oceanography, environmental geology, geophysics, geochemistry) desirable. Summer field courses are taught at Wheaton College Science Station in Black Hills, South Dakota. Resum6s to Dr. Dillard Faries, Dept. of Physics/Geology, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 60187. (Received Aug. 1985)


Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, anticipates an  opening available in physics, starting January or February, 1986. The department offers a full undergraduate physics major with strong laboratory and classroom components. A Ph.D. degree is preferred; candidates holding a M.S. degree will be considered. Persons interested in teaching (research opportunities are also available to augment the teaching) in a Christian undergraduate college environment are invited to submit a c.v. or to call for additional information to: Dr. John Van Zytveld, Chairman, Physics Department, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI 49506. Phone: (616) 957-6340. Calvin College is an equal opportunity employer.

LOCAL SECTION ACTIVITIES

NORTH CENTRAL

This once-active chapter is beginning to show signs of life again, say Bob Bohon, "thanks largely to the efforts of Bill Monsma and guys like David Kaar." One idea they're interested in pursuing is the use of science fiction to explore Christian themes. In addition to C. S. Lewis's famous trilogy, they wonder if some of Frank Herbert's novels might be good examples. Herbert is probably best known for Dune (1965) because of the recent movie of that title, but he has also written The God Makers (1973), Soul Catcher (1973), Dune Messiah (1976), The Heaven Makers (1977), with theologically provocative titles. Any sci-fi literature scholars (or fans) out there are invited to correspond with Robert L. Bohon, 5960 Hobe Lane, White Bear Lake, MN 55110.


SAN FRANCISCO BAY

The April 27 meeting featured U.C. Berkeley genetics professor Philip Spieth on gene manipulation and its practical and ethical consequences. In spite of a disappointingly low turnout by ASAers, members of Paul McKowen's Irvington Presbyterian Church, where the meeting was held, carried on a stimulating discussion with Professor Spieth.

Besides Paul as president, the section board consists of Paul Baba (program), Ruth Euler (hospitality), Dave Sheriff (publicity), Chi-Hang Lee, Rich Borghi (sec/treasurer), and Roy Griller ("permanent" executive secretary). With Ruth and Dave retiring from the board this year, two nominations have been made for their replacements: William Anderson, consulting scientist at Lockheed's R&D Division and member of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church; and Robert Miller, physics teacher at James Lick High School and member of First Baptist Church of Gilroy.

Local section dues of $5 and contributions from section members are requested, mostly for postage and meeting handouts. Thanks to Hugh Vander Plas and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, the mailing notices are printed gratis. They look good, too. (A little gratis publicity for Xerox in return-Ed.)

PERSONALS

Robert L. Bohon has been employed by 3M Company in St. Paul, Minnesota, since 1956. From his initial position as a senior chemist in 3M's Central Research Laboratories, Bob has progressed through various technical management positions, his most recent post having to do with environmental concerns. This June he became director of the Analytical & Properties Research Lab of the Central Research Laboratories. Bob has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the U. of Illinois and a broad range of technical publications.

Donald G. Davis, associate professor of library & information science at the U. of Texas in Austin, spoke on "Intellectual Freedom and Evangelical Faith" at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Association of Christian Librarians in June at Evangel College in Springfield, Missouri. He argued that "Christian freedom, understood biblically, not only permits but encourages intellectual pursuits in virtually all spheres of knowledge." Don edits the Journal of Library History, and in August participated in a seminar for journal editors at the 51st General Conference of the International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions, held in Chicago.

Bryan Ezard of Basket Range in South Australia and wife Janet serve with Wycliffe Bible Translators. In 1976, in the village of Diwinai in Papua New Guinea, they began learning the Tawala language and translating the New Testament into it. In July 1985 they went back to Diwinai to help celebrate completion of that translation. The Ezards' home church (Summertown Uniting) had contributed $15,000 to cover an initial printing of 2,000 copies, half of which were bought by Tawala-speaking church members within a few weeks. Now that Matthew and John and Paul "can talk our language," the Tawala elders want to have the Old Testament, too. Bryan has been asked to check the work of a six-person Tawala translation committee and supervise the program, which he hopes to do primarily from Australia, spending only a month or so in Papua New Guinea each year.

Kirk E. Farnsworth has become director of CRISTA Counseling Service in Seattle, Washington. Kirk was formerly professor of psychology at Wheaton College in Illinois. He has a chapter on "Furthering the Kingdom in Psychology" in The Making of a Christian Mind: A Christian World View and the Academic Enterprise (IVP, 1985), edited by Arthur Holmes. Kirk also has a new book of his own, entitled Wholehearted Integration: Harmonizing Psychology and Christianity Through Word and Deed (Baker Book House, 1985).

Gerard Fridsma has taken a position with the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics in Groton, Connecticut, after 27 years at the Davidson Laboratory of Stevens Institute of Technology. In a sense Gerard's move sounds like "taking a dive;" he's moving not only from academia to industry but also from the surface craft he has worked on before to submarine vehicles. The hydrodynamic principles should be somewhat the same, though, as he tries to develop a computer simulator for predicting the stability and maneuvering of submarines, given only their geometry and inertial quantities.

James Garner has left Olivet Nazarene College in Kankakeee, Illinois, and is now on the staff of the Dept. of Physics at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. Jim spent the summer doing solid state research at Argonne National Lab near Chicago.

Richard H. Harrison of Lawrenceville, New Jersey, was seriously injured in an automobile accident in June and has been in a coma ever since, according to Jim Neidhardt. Dick was preparing to defend his dissertation in education at Rutgers when the accident occurred. Dick has been active in the New-York-New-Jersey local section and had registered for the Oxford conference. Before leaving for Oxford, Jim thought that Dick had begun to show some responsiveness to family and friends trying to communicate with him in the hospital. Dick and his wife need our prayers in the critical months ahead.

Walter R. Hearn of Berkeley, California, a biochemist before becoming editor of this Newsletter, is now an emeritus member of the American Chemical Society. After 35 years of paying ACS dues, he now gets Chemical & Engineering News for free. (An even better deal: ten years ago Wait paid-for a life membership in AAAS, bringing him more than his money's worth from Science as annual dues increased with inflation-Ed.) This spring Wait helped celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics at Iowa State University. As a charter member, Wait was invited back to Ames to give a talk on the department's beginnings in 1960; with no more need of academic tenure, he felt free to "tell it like it was"-and sometimes it was pretty funny.

Gregory W. Heath recently moved to Atlanta, Georgia, from the Marshfield Clinic in Marshfield, Wisconsin. Greg, who has D.Sc. and M.P.H. degrees, is in Atlanta to get training in epidemiology in the Behavioral Epidemiology Branch of the Center for Disease Control of the U.S. Public Health Service.

Ruth Herr resigned as ASA's managing editor just in time's nick, evidently, since Stephen David was born two and a half weeks early, on 29 June 1985. Husband Dave expects to receive his M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Divinity School in January, be licensed with the Assemblies of God, and find a church somewhat closer to his family in Colorado and Ruth's in Texas. Any openings out there?

Ronald Johnson is now an assistant professor of biology at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts, having moved from Sterling College in Kansas. Ron recently completed a dissertation for the Doctor of Arts degree from the U. of Northern Colorado on "The Acceptance of Evolutionary Theory by Biology Majors in Colleges of the West North Central States."

William C. Keel will spend the next two years at Sterrewacht Leiden in the Netherlands. (We assume that sterrewacht is Dutch for "observatory," since Bill has a Ph.D. in astronomy and his position in Leiden will be that of senior research astronomer. -Ed.) For a number of years he has been at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona.

Douglas B. Kennard is a Ph.D. candidate in rural sociology at The Ohio State University in Columbus. He is studying "Perceived Adequacy of Public Services" in a sample of community leaders in some 900 rural communities in Ohio, using "central place theory" and "social learning theory" to explore how well social structural and personalistic variables would predict such perceptions. He would like to correspond with other social scientists about evaluating and using such theories in a Christian manner. (Address: 2201 Riverside Dr., Apt. 213, Columbus, OH 43221)

Geoffrey S. Lee is returning to the San Francisco Bay area and will live in Sunnyvale, near his new job as a structural/construction engineer for NASA. His first assignment is structural design in connection with rehabilitating an existing 40 X 80 X 120 subsonic wind tunnel. Geoff considers NASA "a terrific place to work, with good engineers supporting the research efforts."

Janet M Lindquist is in the practice of general surgery in Hibbing, Minnesota. She did her surgical training at the U. of Iowa hospitals and clinics in 1974-78. In October 1984, at the Clinical Congress in San Francisco, she became a Fellow of the American College of Surgery. Janet is interested in overseas medicine and has served as a short-term missionary surgeon and pediatrician in Nigeria, West Africa, under auspices of the Christian Reformed Mission.

John Warwick Montgomery, dean of The Simon Greenleaf School of Law in Anaheim, California, had other business in England this summer besides giving a paper at the ASA/RSCF Oxford conference. John is a barrister member of both Lincoln's Inn and Middle Temple (which we take to be two of the four guilds of English barristersEd.). On July 25, during the meeting of the American Bar Association in London (which happens once every 25 years, to celebrate the roots of American law in English common law), John preached an evangelistic sermon at the Chapel of Lincoln's Inn. Members of the Christian Legal Society at the ABA were especially invited to bring non-Christian lawyer friends to the service and to a luncheon discussion following at the Inns of Court School of Law.

Scott Moor of Pacifica, California, had only a few weeks after the Oxford conference and subsequent ASA Eurobus tour before beginning a series on "Right Before Your Eyes: Reasons for Belief" at the Emmaus Community which he directs. But the conference, conversations on the bus, and the experiences of the trip itself were rather powerful stimuli to deep thinking about faith. Scott is an industrial consultant with an M.S. in chemical engineering from M.I.T.

Glenn E. Roark has just taken early retirement from the U. of Texas Student Health Center, where he has been employed as a psychiatrist for the past fifteen years. What's more, the entire Mental Health Service staff also resigned. At the root of the conflict were long-standing differences with the university administration over what constitutes appropriate mental health care. Glenn is now joining the staff of the Counseling and Pastoral Care Center of Austin, where he has been a volunteer psychiatric consultant since its founding ten years ago. The Center was organized by W. E. Denham, a licensed counselor as well as a former pastor of Austin's First Baptist Church. Glenn says "it will be a joy to work with a staff that shares deeply held theological, philosophic, and scientific values."

Michael J. Smitka, back in Connecticut after a year and a half in Tokyo, is writing his dissertation at Yale on subcontracting in Japanese manufacturing, a case-study showing how "market" transactions are more complex than the price-quantity image of normal economic theory. Having come back to the States with an expanded family, Mike is now praying about future decisions: an academic career vs. business or government; Japan and industrial organization vs. development economics in the LDC's (less developed countries). He'd appreciate our prayers as he gets ready to enter the job market.

John W. Stahl is now an assistant professor of chemistry at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. John has a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry and is interested in the chemistry of sulfur and environmental heavy metals. He moved from Bloomsburg State U. in Pennsylvania.

Claude Stipe has been appointed chair of the Dept. of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In his three-year term he will be responsible for coordinating the department's four major disciplines: anthropology, criminology & law, sociology, and social work. Claude joined the Marquette faculty in 1968. He is a graduate of Wheaton College, has a master's degree from UCLA and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the U. of Minnesota. He formerly taught at Bethel College in Minnesota and at Fort Wayne Bible College in Indiana.

David H. Watt is now with Paul Jordan, M.D., in the practice of orthopedic surgery in Carol Stream, Illinois, having completed his residency at the U. of Illinois in Chicago in July 1985. Last spring David presented a paper at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, on "Chymopain Chemonucleolysis: A Clinical Study of Results and Correlation with Size of Disc Protrusion and Post-injection Disc Space Narrowing."

Kurt Wood is back home in Piedmont, California, this summer with wife Debbie and little Rachel Noelle, born in Casablanca. Since "Noelle" means "gift" in Arabic, a Morrocan-style baby party in December gave the Woods a chance to talk about the Christmas story to some of their friends-before their tourist visa expired and they had to return to France. Becoming more fluent in French was important because that's the language in which Kurt will teach chemistry at the U. of Casablanca in September under a nine-month Fulbright fellowship. Fluency in Arabic will also be important to their long-range goal of helping the Morrocan church become established. Although Kurt will be "tentmaking," his stipend in the local  currency cannot be used to pay U.S.-based expenses, so the Woods still need financial support (c/o North Africa Mission, 47 Long Lane, Upper Darby, PA 19082).




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